Art news (sadly) reports…
After a group of pro-Beijing politicians and newspapers accused Hong Kong’s soon-to-open M+ museum of violating China’s national security law, the institution said that its presentations will comply with the measure. According to a report by the South China Morning Post, Henry Tang Ying-yen, chairman of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in Hong Kong, said that the arts district “will definitely uphold the law, comply with the Basic Law, local laws, and the national security law.”
The South China Morning Post also reports that M+ will not show Ai Weiwei’s artwork Study of Perspective: Tiananmen Square (1997), when it opens to the public later this year. Ai’s photograph the artist raising his middle finger before Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the site of a 1989 massacre in which troops fired at students protesting governmental corruption. A complaint filed to the police by pro-Beijing figures last week centered on the institution’s press preview, which included works by Ai.
